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J. L. KENDALL.

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PatentedApr. 10,1883.

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INVENTOR MWL LMA/MM WITNESSES ATTORNEYS .UNIT-{113D-- STATES JOHN L.KENDALL, or

lPair-ENT OFFICE.

BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HEIMANN & WALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HEAD-covl-:RINGQ SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No.275,670, dated April 1Q, 1883. Application filed February 13, 1883. (Nomodel.)

false interior crown ot' novel construction forV causing a circulationof air in the interior of the head-covering. This I accomplish by theconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed,and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1represents-a perspective view of a z o hat constructed according to myinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical 'central section on a larger scale thanthe previous figure. transverse section in the plane :v Fig. 2.

Similarletters indicate corresponding parts. In the drawings, the letterA designates the crown of a hat, cap, or other head-covering. Into thiscrown is fitted a false crown, B, which is by preference made ot' apractically air-` tight material-such as buckralnstiibned with 3oshellac-andwhich,whenadjustedinthecrown A, forms an air-chamber, C,above the head of the person wearing the hat.

The false crown represented in the drawings consists of two parts, a, b,which are 3 5 united by an intermediate layer, D, of cork or othermaterial, and the'air-chamber C is formed between the outer part, a, andthe inner part, b. The tip ot' the outer part, a, may be partially cutaway it' the hat is made of a practiv 4c cally air-tight material, suchas felt saturated with a solution of shellac; but it' the hat is made ofstraw braid or other open-work material, the tip of the outer part, a,is made to extend clear across the same,-as the tip ofthe 4 5 innerpart, b, and the air-chamber B is formed entirely between the inner andthe outer parts of the false crown.

In the layer D, which, in the example shown in the drawings, serves tounite theinner and 5o the outer parts of Ythe false crown C, are

Fig. 3 is a` formed a series of air-channels, c, which communicatethrough holes d with"`the external atmosphere and through loles c in thefalse crown with the inner space ot the hat, above the head of theperson wearing said hat, the holes d being formed through the sides ofthe crown A in an annular series above the brim e E, thus permitting thelower edge ot' the interposed layer D to be entirely closed and theiiangef of the sweat-leather F to be brought 6o or turned outward underthe said layer and secured to the brim at its junction with the crown.The sweat-band is arranged in contact with the inner part, b, of thefalse crown, and by attaching it, as shown, the hat is made to nicelytit the wearer and ane-at appearance provided. By the air-channels c acirculation of air is produced in the interior ot' the hat above thehead, while the air contained in the air-chamber C materially reducesthe heating 7o effect ofthe suns rays or of the external atmosphere.

What I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the crown A, having holes d formed through itssides above the brim, ofthe false crown B, having a series of holes, e,in its sides, located above the line of the holes in the crown, and theintermediate layer,D,of cork or other material, serving 8o to supportthe false crown in position, and constructed with air-channels c, theends of which communicate respectively with the holes through the sidesofthe main and false crowns, substantially as described.

. 2. The combination, with the crown A, of the false crown B, having aseries of holes, c, in the sides ot' its top portion, the interposedlayer D, ot' cork or other material, serving to support the false crownin position, and hav- 9o ing air-channels c coincident with the holesthrough the false crown, and the sweat-leather F, having` a tlange,f,atits lower edge, turned outward beneath the interposed layer D andsecured to the brim at its junction with the main crown, substantiallyas described.

3. The combination, with the crown A, having a series of holes, d,through its sides above the brim, of the false crown B, composed of twoparts, a and b, arranged to form the airroo chamber C, and the innerparl; having a series In testimony whereofI have hereuntoset my 0fholes, c, the layer D, of cork or other mahand and seal in the presenceof two Subscribterial,interposed between the two parts of the ingwitnesses.

false crown, and having air-channels c coinci- 5 dent with the holes inthe main and false JOHJ.T L. KENDALL. lL. s]

crowns, andthe sweat-leather F, arranged direotly upon the inner part ofthe false crown, Witnesses: and having a flange, f, all its lower edge,se- XV. HAUFF, cured to the brim atitsjuncbon with the main CnAs.WAHLERS.

rc crown, substantially as described.

